From: Peter Binfield <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:33:47 -0800 Of possible interest to this group. For Immediate Release - 11th Feb 2014. Yours, Pete Binfield, Publisher, PeerJ. # # # Press Release - With the addition of Stanford, 20 universities have now entered into an Institutional Arrangement with PeerJ San Francisco, 11th February 2014 - PeerJ (the award winning open access publisher of both PeerJ PrePrints and PeerJ) is pleased to announce that with the addition of Stanford University, twenty universities have now signed up to provide PeerJ Publication Plans to their faculty. Authors from these institutions will have their publication plans automatically paid for them, using funds centrally provided by their library. In addition to these 20 universities, numerous others have committed to supporting Open Access charges in some form, and many of them also have public pages on PeerJ. Peter Binfield, Co-Founder of PeerJ said that "as we approach the one year anniversary of having published our first articles, a milestone which we celebrate tomorrow, it is a great sign that so many world class institutions appreciate the PeerJ model to the extent that they have chosen to support their researchers in this way". For the price of just one year of access to just one subscription journal (or a single open access publication fee at many other publishers) universities can fund the lifetime publication plans for a large number of their faculty. The current universities with a PeerJ arrangement are: Arizona State University Carnegie Mellon University Colorado State University Duke University Emory University Kansas University Nottingham University Oregon State University Stanford University Texas A&M University Trinity University University College London University of Arizona University of Birmingham University of California Berkeley University of Cambridge University of Glasgow University of Manitoba University of New Mexico University of Newfoundland More information, including Case Studies from several of these institutions can be found at https://peerj.com/edu. Any university which is interested in a similar arrangement can email PeerJ at: [log in to unmask] ### About PeerJ PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of peer reviewed articles, which offers researchers a lifetime membership, for a single low price, giving them the ability to openly publish all future articles for free. PeerJ is based in San Francisco, CA and London, UK and can be accessed at https://peerj.com/. All works published in PeerJ are Open Access and published using a Creative Commons license (CC-BY 4.0). Everything is immediately available-to read, download, redistribute, include in databases and otherwise use-without cost to anyone, anywhere, subject only to the condition that the original authors and source are properly attributed. PeerJ Media Resources (including logos) can be found at: https://peerj.com/about/press/ ### For PeerJ: Email: [log in to unmask] https://peerj.com/about/press/